Blockchain Organizing for Managers

Paul Bessems is an international speaker, blockchain consultant and (co) author of more than ten management books. He has more than 25 years experience in designing and developing new organizations that align better with our new context (data economy) and new organization technologies such as blockchain. He is an expert in the field of Blockchain Organizing. He helps organizations with the tran-sition ‘From Business to Networkorganization’ and answering questions like: ‘What is Blockchain Organizing, why is it important, how can I use it (and how not) and how should we start with it?’ Besides his work as a consultant, he is also chairman and fellow of the Weconomics Foundation. Weconomics is a network that facilitates the transition to a more sustainable prosperity. The core in this development is the deployment of organization technology such as blockchain to create surplus for a new ‘work sphere’. Paul is also founder and CEO of Weconet Blockchain Technologies, located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, one of the smartest regions in the world. Weconet helps organization to use new technologies such as blockchain and align these new technologies in new organization models such as shared transaction networks. Paul is also founder and fellow of The Institute for New Organizational Thinking. Paul studied industrial engineering and management science at the Technical Uni-versity in Eindhoven. In 1992 he introduced the Harvard Case Method in the Netherlands, developed several master programs for universities and developed two PHD’s research proposals. In 1992 he started Buro Staff Support, his first professional community. Since then he helped dozens of professional communities. In recent years, these communities more and more work with the concept of Blockchain Organizing.